The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-09

guilty, charging the accused with running
distillery at Chelsea and Corinth and he
was sentenced last week Tuesday to eight
cen months in the house of correction and
to pay u fine of $1,000. Moses and Sias
have been admitted to bail in the sum of
$500 for their appearance at the next term
of court. The jury in jah Magoon's case
could not agree and were discharged.
Other Localities.
CHOLERA has appeared in Sicily.
Boston had ten inches of snow Tuesday.
The Prince of Wales has returned to
London.
BRADsTREET's reports a general improve
ment in trade.
REV. DIR. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE is
somewhat better.
REV. DIR. BARToL of Boston has resigned
his long pastorate
Four hundred children have the measles
at Shenandoah, Pa.
LONG ISLAND had violent earthquake
shock last Thursday.
THERE were violent earthquake shocks in
Morea, Greece, Friday.
THE tra,ie-dollar will be redeemed at New
York and San Francisco
A LUMBER-yARD fire in Hannibal, Mo-,
has caused a loss of 100000.
THE public debt statement shows a reduc-
ton of 81 400, 900 in February.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt at
Charleston, S. c., Friday morning.
G. j. PETERSON, publisher of Peterson's
Magazine, is dead, aged sixty-eight.
THE fear of war in Russian Poland is
causing a suspension of all business.
The Red Star steamer Waesland ~ has
been wrecked, but without loss of life.
OLIVER INGALLS, paint works in Brook
Ign, n. Y, were damaged S25, 900 by fire.
GERMANY has issued orders to weed out
certain classes of Frenchmen from Alsace.
AN explosion in a colliery at Quaregnon,
Belgium, killed one hundred forty miners.
SIX men on railroad snow-plow were
smothered by a snow-slide at Selkirk, Que.
THE Maine house of representatives has
passed a new and very stringent liquor law.
HoTEL-KEEPERs at Nice are selling out at
great sacrifice in consequence of the
earthquake.
A NEGRO his wife and three children were
burned to death in their cabin at Mariana,
Ark, last week.
A FIGHT in Coronado Kansas, over the
location of the county seat ended in the
death of six men.
UNION block Dover, n. H., was dam
aged by fire Friday night The losses ag-
gregate about $4,000.
postponed measure looking to the repeal
of the prohibitory law.
FRANK w. FOSTER, town treasurer of
Greenfield, Mass, is self-confessed de-
faulter of upwards of $4,000.
THERE was general jubilee at Glouces-
ter, Mass, because of the Presidents action
in signing the retaliatory bill.
A STEAMER from China, just arrived at
San Francisco, reports Chinese junk having
been wrecked, with 600 on board
THE crisis in Irish affairs is approaching
and the early downfall of Salisbury's cabi-
net is predicted in some quarters.
RECENT thaws and rains on the Rocky
Mountain section of the Canadian Pacific
road have washed away several bridges.
Two sailors on board a steamer which ar.
rived at New York from Central America
died of what is supposed to be yellow fever
THE estimated fire losses for February are
| 81 SOC, 900, which is an increase over the
February average for the past thirteen
years.
LIEUTENANT GREELY's nomination as
brigadier-general and chief signal officer
was unanimously confirmed in executive
| session.
NEARLY 100 inmates of ST. Josephs Con
vent, St. Louis, Mo-, were poisoned by
canned fruit. All are believed to be out Of
danger.
THE shoe manufacturers of Haverhill
| Mass, have issued manifesto to the effec
that there must be either lower wages OF
| less work.
THE steamer "W. III. Gardiner" wa.
burned on the Tombigbee river, Alabama
and ten white and ten colored persons los
their lives
IT is said that w r. Morrison, Judge
Cooley and General Bragg of Alabama
will be appointed interstate commerce com
mssioners.
PROFESSOR FALB, the Viennese meteorol
ogist, announces that there is no furthe
danger to be expected from earthquakes il
the Riviera.
In the vicinity of Ottawa, Canada, trains
were snow-bOund three days. LumbermeI
report from twelve to twenty feet of snow
in the woods.
ToUssAINT OUMETTE chased chicken il
front of moving locomotive in Springfield
Mass. He fell under the engine and wa
instantly killed.
MARGARET MATHER, the actress, was Sc
cretly married at Buffalo, n. Y, to Emf
Habercorn leader of the Union Square
Theater orchestra.
The spirit of disorder is spreading in Bull
garia Servia has sent an army to TIN
frontier. Renewed fear exists that Russi
is about to begin hostilities.
f. w. jerks of the Chicago Herald ha
applied for patent for heating railroa'
cars with hot air. The system can be useC
to supply cold air in summer.
THE French government has at last sue
ceeded in obtaining leave from the Greel
government to search at Delphi for remain
of the temple which stood there
A STORMY scene occurred in the house c
commons Thursday night, Mr.. Dillon de
Tending the Irish " plan of campaign" Mr.
Parnell took part in the discussion.
The loss by the fire to the Morgan lin
ship Lone Star" in New York, is varousl
estimated at from 100000 to 100000.
THE superintendent of the Winona & s.
Peter railroad states that between Mankat
and Tracy the snow-drifts are in man
cases six feet above the telegraph poles.
HERR WEDELL PREsDoRF was Frida
elected president of the German reichstas
, He received 1874 votes. Two ballots wer
cast for DR.. Windthorst and 90 were blanl
A GIFT of upward of S230,00O has been +,
ceived by the president AMI fellows of Ha
ward College, being the bequest of the lat
. Urah A. Boyden for astronomical research
THE " chinook Ga warm wind) continue
with undated force throughout Montan;
} 1t has carried off great part of the snow
, except on the mountains and the cattle al
! again feeding and resting
G. f. EGAN, young Ohio invento
claims to have perfected a system by while
vessels at sea can communicate with eaC
, other, or with land. by the human voice
without regard to distance.
! NEARLY Ona-half of the trade-dollal